Blue Cup Tools Podcast

How to give hints to your player without using text. We also discuss games with no dialogue.

On remakes: are they necessary? What makes them good or bad? Have there been any good ones? Also silliness.

A very serious discussion about art! The importance of practice, and knowing your skills and limitations. Then we get silly at the end.

Happy New Year! We talk about games, resolutions, and bottlenecks.

A retrospective of AdventureX! Were YOU there?

We attempt to discuss good pacing in adventure game stories, but Grundislav ends up talking about The Hunger Games for way too long.

Context is everything.

Welcome to the Wadjet Eye Games Podcast! Dave Gilbert joins us to discuss how to make less important characters more interesting.

Halloween! We discuss character motivations and imminent crisis in games. Spooooooky!

We have a very particular set of skills...

We look back on our old games and discuss flaws that plague them, as well as things we would do differently.

After some appropriate technical difficulties, we discuss pitfalls in game design and how to avoid them.

We finally address some topic requests that we never got around to. BUY A GOLDEN WAKE!

We're joined once again by special guest Dave Gilbert to discuss the importance of world building.

What have we learned, Ben Chandler?

We attempt to discuss starting new projects, but tangents get the better of us.

Special guest Richard Cobbett joins us to discuss adventure game tropes and traditions vs. innovations.

Coding tips, and all the usual tangents we go on.

We return after 2 months! Art style as it relates to your player character, and how to approach writing a story for a game as opposed to a book or movie.

Listeners ask questions, and we answer them! How to write characters who are annoying but still likeable, and how to decide what portion of a character's story to tell in your game.